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Cartoon of woman walking across a blue sky by stepping on three floating lightbulbs. Two bulbs are yellow and one is grey. Moving from the left, she's currently stepping from the grey one, which is smaller, onto a larger yellow one in the middle, and there's an even larger yellow one on the right, which would be her next step.

Why Expectations Change Experience… and How to Change Yours

Expectation shapes perception across many domains – from taste and pain to performance and wellbeing. Here’s the science and some ways to work with your own expectation.

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Image of a digital brain with connected lights inside it and two hands around it, but not touching it. The background is a blurred out light blue but we can slightly make out that the hands belong to a person.

Why Your Brain Loves Stories

Rather than engaging just one system (which happens when you hear a fact), stories recruit several at once. They can trigger emotion, create mental images, activate memory, generate curiosity, and help us predict what happens next. This is why we remember stories better than facts.

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Cartoon illustration of woman with flowing hair in the wind, clouds in the pale green sky behind. She has her hands on her heart and there's red hearts emanating from her heart. She's wearing a mustard coloured top.

One year. Fifty-two emails. One important lesson.

Your body doesn’t stay neutral when you’re kind. Research has shown that kindness impacts circulating immune cells in ways that reduce inflammation and bolster natural antiviral activity.

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Woman writing colourful post it notes (she is left handed) and sticking them into a page in her diary. She's seated at a wooden table that also has her laptop, glasses, and a white vase containing orange roses. She is wearing a grey short-sleeved top and the photo cuts off at her chin - we only shows her chin and some brown hair hanging down.

Why Unfinished Tasks Drain Your Energy

The Zeigarnik Effect is how unfinished tasks tend to stick around and take up space in our minds. Knowing this, we can free up mental space by making notes and plans.

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